Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success, "Big Time," seems strikingly out of place on an album geared to appeal to the intoxicated youth of summer...
...editorial. But the message of restraint was lost on even the writer's own newspaper, which festooned its pages with extravagant coverage of the six-day visit to Japan of Britain's Prince Charles and Diana. In Tokyo, 92,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the royal couple's motorcade. Diana, who left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended a sumo-wrestling match. As always, Charles scored points for his unstiff reserve, but the irrepressible Diana...
JOHN HARVARD looked a bit miffed, or at least lonely, the other day. Snapshot-hungry tourists have taken to posing in front of the shantytown instead of the pseudo-founding father...
Nothing could be more banal, but Bartlett attacked this motif from dozens of stylistic angles and levels of attention, from Dufyesque silhouettes of color to gaudy calendar-art cliches, from cautious realist scrutiny to Warholian transcriptions of holiday-snapshot cropping. Sometimes the scene is light and sun-drenched, sometimes it is drowned in bloom and speckles, or elided by pastel smudges, or darkened into an eerie nocturnal calm. There is no favorite medium; Bartlett uses gouache, watercolor, ink, pastel, crayon, oil and pencil with almost equal facility...
Woods was selected to compete on the popular program based on a snapshot revealing his "good looks" and a trivia test conducted by phone several weeks ago, said Robert Edwards, contestant supervisor for the C.B.S. morning game show...